Letters

Summer 2007

Chinas Lies

To the editor:
Thank you for Guy Sormans article on China [The Empire of Lies, Spring 2007]. Years of studying the oppression of religious groups there and the tutelage of my professor (a survivor of the Cultural Revolution) taught me to see through the medias optimistic spin. Your work greatly aids awareness of the true conditions in China.

Vanessa Phin
Baltimore, Maryland

White Lies

To the editor:
The rule of you [Andrew Klavan, The Big White Lie, Spring 2007], and others of manifest personality disorders and Leo Straussian Fascist tendencies, is coming to an end. So blather on to no avail, oh evil one.

Tom OMalley
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

To the editor:
My eyes are opened. I am
a barbarian, out of step with modern times. But now, Im not going to be ashamed of it.

John Heeder
American Fork, Utah

Drinking It In

To the editor:
I have rarely read an essay as sensitive to the complex, angry, formidable, and brilliantly insightful character of Arthur Koestler [A Drinker of Infinity, Spring 2007]. That character is all too easy to vulgarize. Theodore Dalrymples essay holds all the ends together, without trivializing to laud or condemn.

Martin Krygier
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sharpe Exception

To the editor:
Newark is a thriving city with a diverse population [Cory Bookers Battle for Newark, Spring 2007]. Our crime rate was lower than New Yorks under Giuliani. I am offended by the lack of objectivity in your article and your skewering of the leader of the last 20 years, Sharpe James.

Alturrick Kenney
Newark, New Jersey

Steven Malanga responds:
Only a Sharpe James supporter could call Newark a thriving city, with double the U.S. poverty and unemployment rate, average household income half the rest of New Jerseys, and 68 percent out-of-wedlock births. The crime rate is higher than Giulianis when he took over in New York; translated to New Yorks population, it would equal more than 3,000 homicides a year.

Judging Thomas

To the editor:
I was surprised that you
did not discuss Bush v. Gore [Reading the Constitution Right, Spring 2007]. Judge Thomas seemed to betray his belief in states rights to reach a politically correct outcome.

Barry Davis
Eugene, Oregon

Stephen B. Presser responds:
Bush v. Gore wasnt a
states rights case but one
where a state court violated due-process concepts and failed to follow federal guidelines for securing a safe harbor for electors. Also, Thomas wrote no opinion in the case.